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(For Malidoma Some', Loon Lake 2000)CargoYou enter life a ship laden with meaning, purpose and giftssent to be delivered to a hungry world.And as much as the world needs your cargo,you need to give it away.Everything depends on this.But world forgets its needs,and you forget your mission,and the ancestral maps used to guide youhave become faded scrawls on the parchment of dead Pharaohs.The cargo weighs you heavy the longer it is heldand spoilage becomes a risk.The ship sputters from port to port and at each you ask:"Is this the way?"But the way cannot be found without knowing the cargo,and the cargo cannot be known without recognizing there is a way,and it is simply this:You have gifts.The world needs your gifts. You must deliver them.The world may not know it is starving,but the hungry know, and they will find youwhen you discover your cargoand start to give it away. Greg Kimura